•490 ^Ir. AV. L. Distant'^ Ix'/ii/uchotal Notes. 



greyisli white, their basal areas bhick, a narrow transverse 

 tuscous fascia beture apex and tiie extreme apical margin 

 ])alely ot the same colour; lateral areas ot" sternum gre.yisiily 

 tomcntose ; pronotum thickly punctate, s})aringly shortly 

 pilose, the lateral angles subprominent, the posterior process 

 broad, robust, its apex subacute and reaching the posterior 

 angle of the inner tegminal margin ; basal tegminal dark area 

 jiunctate. 



Long, 3 mm. ; breadth hit. proiiot. angl. 2 mm. 



IJah. W. Africa; Addah, Gold Coast (//. T. Palmer, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



A short, broad, and very robust species. 



Gargara f rater na, sp. u. 



Pronotnni and legs pale chestnut-brown ; face black, 

 thickly, linely, palely pilose ; tegmina pale chestnut-broun 

 with pale greyish suffusions, })rincipally appearing as a 

 trajisveise fascia near base and small elongate spots on apical 

 area, the apical margin also distinctly paler ; body beneath 

 greyishly pilose, a greyish-white spot at each basal angle of 

 the posterior pronotal j)rocess ; pronotum thickly finely punc- 

 tate and obscurely pilose, the lateral angles subprominent, 

 with a strong percurrent central longitudinal ridge, posterior 

 pronotal {.rocess broad and robust, distinctly centrally con- 

 cavely sinuate, its apex black, subacute, and recurved down- 

 wardly, slightly passing the posterior angle of the inner 

 tegminal margin. 



Long. 3 mm. ; breadth lat. pronot. angl. 2 ram. 



Jlub. "VV. Africa ; Addah, Gold Coast [11. T. Palmer, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to the preceding species, but, apart from its different 

 colour and markings, the posterior pronotal process is a little 

 longer and more concavely sinuate. 



Gargara jjerpoUta, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and legs black; tegmina greyish white, 

 about basal fourth black and apical third purplish black ; 

 abdomen beneath greyish white, with the segmental margins 

 black ; ])ronotum thickly, somewhat coarsely punctate, 

 centrally, percurrently, longitudinally ridged, the lateral 

 angles subj^rominent, the posterior pronotal process broad, 

 robust, almost straight above, the apex subacute, a little 

 recurved and distinctly passing the posterior angle of the 

 inner tegminal margin. 



Long. 3-4 mm.; breadth lat. pronot. angl. 2^-3 mm. 



